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Tight_as_an_Owl:Why is meth so hilarious? If this had been a story about an alcoholic, junkie, or even paint huffer, I'd be depressed. But somehow meth heads always crack me up. No idea why.

I don't know, alcohol can creep up on you. It can take years to become an alcoholic and even then there are functional ones. There are even functional junkies. But it seems like if you do meth once, you're farked and immediately age 10 years. And they seem to know this yet go out of their way to become chemists to make the stuff (unless they're just buyers). It's still sad but there's a definite "they really brought it on themselves" thing with meth more than most other drugs.

While I agree meth has a devastating effect, someone looking decent in a mugshot is rare. Just think of the income potential, pay a fee and we won't make it public. Some would still need to be mandatory of course.

Mugato:Tight_as_an_Owl: Why is meth so hilarious? If this had been a story about an alcoholic, junkie, or even paint huffer, I'd be depressed. But somehow meth heads always crack me up. No idea why.

I don't know, alcohol can creep up on you. It can take years to become an alcoholic and even then there are functional ones. There are even functional junkies. But it seems like if you do meth once, you're farked and immediately age 10 years. And they seem to know this yet go out of their way to become chemists to make the stuff (unless they're just buyers). It's still sad but there's a definite "they really brought it on themselves" thing with meth more than most other drugs.

I've tried it 3 times. Never been my thing at all. I have known a lot of people that used it. The effect it has on your appearance is gradual, the more you're using the more it shows. As hard as alcohol and heroin are for you you're not to for weeks at a time. Your body simply can't keep up.

Made an emergency move from TX to NM to take care of my Mom. We were supposed to rent my Mom's neighbors place. We get here at night, my husband goes to unlock the place, and comes back and tells me we are getting a motel room for the night. Turns out the previous renter had been cooking meth, we found all his stuff. All our crap in a U-Haul and homeless for a few days with our kids. Found a place to live, still no job. Fark meth heads.

Yes, they cut and dye their hair and tweeze their eyebrows and clean their kitchen and their bathroom and their bedrooms and paint the house and repaint the house and clean the garage and break into your garage and clean it and mow the lawn with their teeth....

I saw the pictures in black and white in today's paper, it was only upon reading the article that I learned it was female.

<shudder>

Where the meth lab was found isn't terribly far from where I smelled some horrific chemical smell recently. Like the world's largest mothball was detonated with acetone and other industrial solvents. I tried to google meth lab smells but jack booted goons smashed my door down and dragged me away. it was only after the 58th vial of blood failed to show any meth, and damned near killed me, that they let me go without so much as a by your leave.

So that's what happened to that rude manager from the FYE that closed at the shiathole mall I stopped going to years ago because dealing with parking and the people there has got to be a form of punishment.

Mugato:Tight_as_an_Owl: Why is meth so hilarious? If this had been a story about an alcoholic, junkie, or even paint huffer, I'd be depressed. But somehow meth heads always crack me up. No idea why.

I don't know, alcohol can creep up on you. It can take years to become an alcoholic and even then there are functional ones. There are even functional junkies. But it seems like if you do meth once, you're farked and immediately age 10 years. And they seem to know this yet go out of their way to become chemists to make the stuff (unless they're just buyers). It's still sad but there's a definite "they really brought it on themselves" thing with meth more than most other drugs.

You only notice the obvious meth addicts, and have assumed that they are all like that. In reality there is every chance that you have encountered people in your day to day life that use meth, and you wouldn't even know.

Not everyone uses meth once then suddenly turns into the strung out tweaker freaks that get posted on the news. There are people out there that hold down jobs and use meth recreationally, they don't hit the headlines though, so you don't see them and therefore don't realise that some faces of meth are quite ordinary.

The ones that are newsworthy are usually the ones who suffer a combination of addiction and poverty. Poverty and an addiction will mess you up pretty good, doesn't matter what the addiction is. Since meth is cheap in the US, it tends to be one of the more accessible drugs for people already in poverty.